From: Perry Altendorfer, MMDTC HistorianTo: All Lineal Descendants, Signers and First Original Families relating to the 1830 Prairie du Chein Treaty.
We are currently updating our files, adding articles and documentation that involves families related to this treaty. Please see document: Johnsons and Jones Report.OUR GOAL IS TO UNITE MIXED BLOOD FAMILIES. Click tocontactPerry with questions or comments.

Welcome to the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community.

We are a nonprofit 501C3 organization dedicated to protecting important and sacred sites and bringing Dakota Oyate (nation) culture back to its birthplace in Minnesota. Donations Go To:

Protect and preserve sites sacred to the Dakota Nation around the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, located in the Twin Cities area.

Revitalize Dakota culture and the use of the Dakota language in its place of origin.

Promote better understanding between non-natives and the Dakota People by providing accurate information about Dakota history in Minnesota.

Offering opportunities for all to learn about Dakota culture.

Establish a home base for the descendants of the Dakota people who lived in the Mendota area and were never granted the U.S. tribal status promised to them.

Promote better understanding between non-natives and the Dakota People by providing accurate information about Dakota history in Minnesota.

Offering opportunities for all to learn about Dakota culture.

Establish a home base for the descendants of the Dakota people who lived in the Mendota area and were never granted the U.S. tribal status promised to them.

We believe we are here to play an important spiritual and cultural role for all people who live here in the land of our ancestors. Please help us to continue our mission by DONATING to our cause. Pidamaya! (Thank you)​